Quantification and prognostic significance of interferon-γ secreting SARS-CoV-2 responsive T cells in hospitalized patients with acute COVID-19

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom. Electronic address: daniel.pan@nhs.net.
• ² Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Respiratory Biomedical Research Center, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
• ³ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
• ⁴ Department of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
• ⁵ University of Leicester Medical School, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Department of Microbiology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
• ⁸ Department of Chemical and Metabolic Diseases, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
• ⁹ Oxford Immunotec Ltd, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁰ Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, New York, USA.